Research at ECE - Cleveland State University

A versatile high-performance floating-point based integrated circuit design for active disturbance rejection control
- Student: Nicholas Tollis
- Advisor: Dr. Pong Chu
Improve ranking of page through personalized search
- Student: Saravanan Chinniah
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
Advanced control design for manufacturing process
- Student: Jeffrey Csank
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Reduced-order extended state observer and frequency response analysis
- Student: Gang Tian
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
A generic framework for managing mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks
- Student: Madhu Mudigonda
- Advisor: Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar
Analysis and implementation of a dimmable low frequency electronic HID ballast
- Student: Prerana Kulkarni
- Advisor: Dr. Ana Stankovic
Optimal Spatial Reuse in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (Outstanding Dissertation Award)
- Student: Lubo Song
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Hardware Implementation of Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Vibrating Beam Gyroscope (Outstanding Thesis Award)
- Student: David Avanesian
- Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong
Stirling Convertor Control for a Lunar Concept Rover
- Student: Gina Blaze
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Development and Control of a Solar Array Switching Module
- Student: Joseph E. Rymut
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Coordination for Web Services Atomic Transactions
- Student: Honglei Zhang
- Advisor: Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Robust and Decentralized Control of Web Winding Systems
- Student: Wankun Zhou
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
One Dimensional Scanning Algorithm for Robotic Applications
- Student: Chandreshkumar Chaudhari
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
PLC Implementation of Beverage Routing Control Algorithm
- Student: Anusha Yerroju
- Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong
Automated Addition of Architectural Software Quality Attributes
- Student: Sarthak Grover
- Advisor: Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar
Ensuring Termination of Diffusing Computations In Networks With Message Loss
- Student: Hamza Zia
- Advisor: Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar
Control of An Active Magnetic Bearing With And Without Postion Sensing
- Student: Rick Rarick
- Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong

2006

Control of active magnetic bearings for flywheel energy storage
- Student: B. X. S. Alexander
- Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong
An integrated design environment for capturing and supporting students problem solving in electric circuits
- Student: Bramarambha Elka
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
A content based distance measure for XML documents
- Student: Ajitha Vemula
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
Control system for human knee joint emulation
- Student: Amit Bawa
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Control system design for nanometer scale positioning systems
- Student: Frank Goforth
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Disturbance rejection control algorithms applied to linear motors
- Student: Classica Jain
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Development of a robust framework for controlling high performance turbofan engines
- Student: Robert Miklosovic
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
On disturbance estimation and its applications in health monitoring
- Student: Aaron Radke
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Application of the ruze equation for inflatable aperture antennas
- Student: Bryan Welch
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
An FPGA-Based Digital Controller for Vibrational MEMS Gyroscopes
- Student: Dae Hui Lee
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Form based control and rate approximation of a Z-axis MEMS gyroscope
- Student: Brian Fast
- Advisor: Dr. Charles Alexander
Design of an Energy Efficient Mac Protocol for sink based Wireless Sensor Network
- Student: Kiran Tatapudi
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Application of optimal filtering for streamflow forecasting
- Student:Vinay Kantamneni
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Optimal robot trajectory planning using evolutionary algorithms
- Student:Bhanu Gouda
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
An integrated design environment for small satellites
- Student:Sunil Gavini
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Simplifying concurrent programming in sensornets using threading
- Student: William P. McCartney
- Advisor: Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar
Channel Estimation and Equalization Techniques For Ask-OFDM in Frequency Flat and Selective Slow Fading Channels
- Student: Vijay Kumar Nomula
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Disturbance Rejection and Embedded Networking For a Class of Commercial DC-DC Power Converters
- Student: Madhura Shaligram
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Satellite Momentum Wheel Speed Control With Dry Rolling Friction Compensation
- Student: Dragos Dinca
- Advisor: Dr. Lili Dong
An Active Disturbance Rejection Approach to the Human Postural Sway Control Problem
- Student: Radhika Kotina
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao

2005

Constraint based data sanitization for preserving privacy in frequent itemset mining
- Student: Salemm Shaik
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
Regression based prediction of water use in public supply in Ohio counties
- Student: Sailesh Shastri
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
A hardware-reconfigurable control platform for space power management and distribution systems
- Student: Zhan Ping
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Towards an intelligent tutoring system for database normalization
- Student: Rebecca Grasser
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Approximation of the complementary error function Q(x)
- Student: Fady Alghusain
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Modem design and evaluation for MLS extension band communication system
- Student: Huaihai Guo
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Symbol synchronization of the ASK-OFDM in AWGN and fading channels
- Student: Sai Chaitanya Mantripragada
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Carrier frequency synchronizer design and evaluation for MASK-OFDM system
- Student: Ying Yang
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Ad hoc positioning system
- Student: Srinivas Tera
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Design of a MAC protocol with need-based scheduling for wireless sensor networks
- Student: Dhvanish Chokshi
- Advisor: Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar
Optimal Generation Bidding Strategies for Power and Ancillary Services
- Student: Allen G. Morinec
- Advisor: Dr. Eugenio Villaseca
A microcomputer controlled calorie monitor for human powered vehicles
- Student:Gary Siegmund
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Autonomous task scheduling for charge optimization of lithium-ion batteries in spacecraft power systems
- Student:Saurabh Jain
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Clustered Mobility Model and Effect of Node Clustering on Wireless Multihop Networks
- Student: Vikram Rawat
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Ad-Hoc Positioning Systems
- Student: Srinivas Yugender
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
H-infinity Control of an Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Student: Nuha Nawash
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Fuzzy Logic Controller for an Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Student: Vamsi Mohan Peri
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Generation of Generalized Signature Sequences
- Student: Hariharan Ramaswamy
- Advisor: Dr. Murad Hizlan
Sensorless Control of a Steeper Motor Using a Kalman Filter
- Student: Chirayu Shah
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Worst Case Performance Analysis of Uncoded Generalized Spread Spectrum in Multipath Channels
- Student: Konstantin Matheou
- Advisor: Dr. Murad Hizlan
Analysis and Implementation of Ripple Current Cancellation Technique For Electronic Ballasts
- Student: Marius Marita
- Advisor: Dr. Ana Stankovic

2004

Improving web navigation for wireless users by web usage mining
- Student: Hironmoy Paul
- Advisor: Dr. Yongjian Fu
De-centralized coordinated control of modular DC to DC power converters
- Student: Michael Gray
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Aggressive threshold-based wavelet filtering for real-time digital control feedback
- Student: Ivan Jurcic
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Active disturbance rejection controller design for an X Y table positioning system
- Student: Ramanathan Narayanan
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Applications of active disturbance rejection and a new parameter estimation method
- Student: Tong Ren
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Improving the security of the AODV routing protocol
- Student: Snehal Ganjigatti
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Design of a HLA-based ground-cluster distributed simulation
- Student: Thong Luu
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Simulated performance of mobile-IP over VDL modes two and three
- Student: Robert Murawski
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Analysis and implementation of a synchronous buck converter used as an intermediate stage of an HID ballast
- Student: Sergey Vernyuk
- Advisor: Dr. Ana Stankovic
Coding techniques for M-ary amplitude shift keying orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system
- Student: Mukul Gandhi
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Further generalization of the unique spreading sequence in generalized direct-sequence spread spectrum
- Student: Ranga Kalakuntla
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Robust symbol timing for mobile aeronautical satellite communications systems
- Student: Stanley Pinchak
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
An asymptotic analysis of the worst-case performance of coded generalized direct sequence spread spectrum
- Student: Sree Upadhyayula
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Coded generalized direct sequence spread spectrum with specific codes
- Student: Manohar Vellala
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
Clustered mobility model and effect of node clustering in multi hop wireless networks
- Student: Vikram Rawa
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Student: Kalyan Kalepu
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Performance Evaluation of Energy Efficient Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Student: Nischala Uppala
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Field oriented control of Step motors
- Student: BhavinKumar Shah
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Dynamometer proportional load control
- Student: Srujan Kusumba
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
On optimization of sensor selection for aircraft gas turbine engines
- Student: Ramgopal Mushini
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Linearization and health estimation of a tubofan engine
- Student: Bharath Reddy Endurthi
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Kalman Filtering for Uncertain Noise Covariances
- Student: SriKiran Kosanam
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon
Radial basis function neuro controller for a PM stepper motor
- Student: SaiKiran Gumma
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon

2003

Dynamic Voltage Scaling Techniques for Power-efficient MPEG Decoding
- Student: Wissam Chedid
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Enhancing the Performance of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks With the Aid of Internet Gateways
- Student: Shiv Mehra
- Advisor: Dr. Chansu Yu
Study of a Six-Pulse, Three-Level, Static Synchronous Coverter
- Student: Francis Johnson
- Advisor: Dr. Eugenio Villaseca

2002

Frequency synchronization study for MASK-OFDM systems
- Student: Yan Ma
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
New mathematical models for analyzing power quality of lighting products
- Student: Nayeem Sayed
- Advisor: Dr. Ana Stankovic
AMSS performance in the aeronautical telecommunications network
- Student: Claudio Ripamonti
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Comparison of data link protocols for formation flying satellites
- Student: Eric Megla
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
Modeling and simulation of VDL modes 2, 3, and 4 in the ATN
- Student: Steven Bretmersky
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
A nonlinear digital control solution for a DC/DC power converter
- Student: Minshao Zhu
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
A novel adaptive cruise control system design and implementation
- Student: Ali Maleki
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Comparative study of differentiation and integration techniques for feedback control systems
- Student: Jing Liu
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Lyapunov-Based Control of Unbalanced Pulse-Width Modulation Boost Type Rectifiers
- Student: Daniel Tuma
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon

2001

Coded noncoherent OFDM in frequency hopping multiple access networks
- Student: Arafat Dweik
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
MASK-OFDM modulator and demodulator implementation using FPGA
- Student: Haiying Deng
- Advisor: Dr. Fuqin Xiong
A closed loop feedback method for a manual bar straightener
- Student: Robert Miklosovic
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
On high performance servo control algorithms for hard disk drive
- Student: Shaohua Hu
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Novel control approaches for web tension regulation
- Student: Yi Hou
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
Emission Control System for an X-Ray Tube
- Student: Jaisingh Rajwade
- Advisor: Dr. Dan Simon

2000

Three-dimensional simulations of PPM focused helical traveling-wave tubes
- Student: Carol Kory
- Advisor: Dr. Haq Qureshi
Modeling and simulation of SAFE and FTP for satellite systems
- Student: Eric Knoblock
- Advisor: Dr. Vijay Konangi
A model-based approach to vibration analysis and diagnosis
- Student: Ihab Wattar
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao
A novel feedback control approach to a class of antilock brake problems
- Student: Fangjun Jiang
- Advisor: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao

Mailing Address
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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SH 332
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

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1960 East 24th St.
Phone: 216.687.2589
Fax: 216.687.5405
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